Parenting education programs aim to teach parents, often low-income mothers, a set of
skills, behaviors, and attitudes believed to promote improved opportunities for their children.
Parenting programs are often offered in schools, with instructors teaching pregnant or
parenting teens about child development, attachment, and discipline strategies. Despite the
large numbers of participants and significant public and private funding going to parenting
education, sociologists of education in the United States have paid little attention to the topic …